Spain Box Office for Blinded by the Light (Cegado por la Luz) (2019)
Theatrical Performance (US$) | ||
Spain Box Office | $131,571 | Details |
Worldwide Box Office | $19,529,914 | Details |
Home Market Performance | ||
North America DVD Sales | $599,761 | Details |
North America Blu-ray Sales | $551,394 | Details |
Total North America Video Sales | $1,151,155 | |
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Synopsis
Javed is a British teen of Pakistani descent growing up in the town of Luton, England, in 1987. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. But when a classmate introduces him to the music of Bruce Springsteen, Javed sees parallels to his working-class life in the powerful lyrics. As Javed discovers a cathartic outlet for his own pent-up dreams, he also begins to find the courage to express himself in his own unique voice.
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Movie Details
Production Budget: | $15,000,000 |
Spain Releases: | September 20th, 2019 (Wide), released as Blinded by the Light (Cegado por la Luz) |
Video Release: | October 22nd, 2019 by Universal Home Entertainment |
MPAA Rating: | PG-13 for thematic material and language including some ethnic slurs. (Rating bulletin 2579 (Cert #52178), 5/22/2019) |
Running Time: | 114 minutes |
Keywords: | 1980s, Sundance Film Festival 2019, Set in England, Immigration, Dysfunctional Family, Bigotry, Poet, Indians, Comedy Drama |
Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
Genre: | Drama |
Production Method: | Live Action |
Creative Type: | Dramatization |
Production/Financing Companies: | New Line Cinema, Levantine Films, Ingenious Media, Bend It Films, Rakija Films |
Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
Languages: | English |
2019 - Holiday Gift Guide - Part I - First-Run Releases and Franchise Box Sets
November 27th, 2019
It's Thanksgiving weekend, which means Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and of course the first installment of our Holiday Gift Guide. This year, Thanksgiving is as late as it could have been, which means there’s no way to squeeze in four weeks of regular installments of the gift guide, as well as the December monthly preview, etc. So we are going to have a condensed list this year. That said, there weren’t a ton of first-run releases that would have made this list regardless.
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Home Market Releases for November 19th, 2019
November 19th, 2019
It is not a prime week on the home market with Dora and the Lost City of Gold being the biggest first run release. It is worth picking up, but not a contender for Pick of the Week. There were a lot of contenders for that title, including Cold War: The Criterion Collection, Fruits Basket: Season One, Part One, and Rock ‘n’ Roll High School: 40th Anniversary Edition. In the end, I went with Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, but all three will end up in my Blu-ray collection before long.
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Home Market Releases for October 22nd, 2019
October 23rd, 2019
The Lion King is scaring away all of the competition and while the Blu-ray / 4K Ultra HD is not Pick of the Week material, there’s almost nothing else to talk about. It might be worth buying WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?: The Complete Series just because of that ridiculously long name.
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Weekend Wrap-Up: Angel has a Divine Debut
August 27th, 2019
Angel Has Fallen led the way at the weekend with $21.38 million. There were some other pleasant surprises in the top ten and this helped the overall box office to a surprise win. It was down 9.6% from last weekend to $108 million; however, this was 5.6% higher than the same weekend last year and we haven’t had many reasons to celebrate in the year-over-year competition, so let’s focus on that. Year-to-date, 2019 is still behind 2018 and is so by nearly identical margins as last weekend at 6.3% or $500 million. This is still a deep hole to try and climb out of, especially since there are only four months left in the year, and I will be happy if we can just cut that gap in half by the end of the year.
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Weekend Wrap-Up: Good Does Well, Box Office is Still Weak
August 20th, 2019
It’s the dog days of summer and Good Boys was the only new release with an impressive debut of $21.40 million, while The Angry Birds Movie 2’s $16.09 million six-day debut isn’t a bad start for this time of year. There were a few holdovers to earn more than $10 million over the weekend, so the overall box office wasn’t a disaster, just a disappointment down 9.5% from last weekend to $119 million. More importantly, this is 7.7% lower the the same weekend last year. Year-to-date, 2019 has pulled in $7.35 billion, but this is 6.3% or $490 million behind last year’s pace. At this point, I don’t think it is possible for 2019 to catch up, but hopefully it can put together a strong last few months to at least save face. Additionally, the international box office is doing better, so worldwide it is close to a wash.
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Weekend Estimates: Universally Good Weekend at the Box Office
August 18th, 2019
Good Boys and Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw are topping the weekend box office chart, so while the overall box office isn’t doing well, Universal is having a great weekend. Good Boys is leading the way with $21.0 million, which is not only better than our predictions, but better than Universal’s projections based on Friday’s estimates. It’s not all rosy, as the film’s reviews and its B plus from CinemaScore don’t suggest really long legs, while this is not the type of film to do well internationally. In fact, it is only pulling in $2.1 million during its opening weekend overseas, including $1.0 million in the U.K.
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Friday Estimates: Good Does Great
August 17th, 2019
Good Boys earned first place on the Friday chart with $8.31 million. Universal is projecting a $20.8 million opening weekend based on this start, which would give the film a rather low internal multiplier. This is due to its reviews and its mere B plus from CinemaScore, neither of which are bad, but they are not great either. It would still be the fastest opening for a comedy all year and this is the first R-rated comedy to top the chart since The Boss debuted more than three years ago. On the one hand, this is great news for Good Boys. On the other hand, what the hell happened to the genre? R-rated comedies used to regularly earn $100 million or more at the box office.
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Thursday Night Previews: Good Doing Better
August 16th, 2019
We have preview numbers for a couple of new releases. Good Boys managed an impressive $2.1 million on Thursday, putting it in a great position to top our prediction by a substantial margin. I would love to get a pleasant surprise at the box office right now.
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Weekend Predictions: Will the Box Office get Angry?
August 15th, 2019
Like last weekend, there are five wide releases coming out this weekend, and again, this is just too many. I can’t imagine all of them will find an audience. In fact, I would be less surprised if none of them really found an audience and Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw remained in first place, than if all of them found an audience. The Angry Birds Movie 2 is the biggest of the new releases, but it debuted on Tuesday, so its demand will be deflated by the weekend. Good Boys has deceptively good reviews, but the buzz isn’t where it should be. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged is a horror film entering a too-crowded market. Meanwhile, both Blinded By the Light and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? will be lucky to avoid the Mendoza Line. This weekend last year, Crazy Rich Asians opened. It wasn’t a monster hit out of the gate, but it was a bigger hit than anything opening this weekend.
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2019 Preview: August
August 1st, 2019
July bounced back from June with both Spider-Man: Far from Home and The Lion King getting to $1 billion worldwide. Domestically, we are still behind 2018’s pace by more than $400 million, but that’s a substantial improvement over where we were at the start of the month. August should continue this winning streak, at least initially. Hobbs and Shaw could open with close to $100 million, but the only other film opening this month that has a real shot at $100 million in total is Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Last August, both Crazy Rich Asians and The Meg topped $100 million, while Christopher Robin came within 1% of that milestone. This August might be better at the very top, but I don’t think the top three this month will top the top three last month. Maybe if we get a surprise hit, it will, but I’m not willing to bet on that. On the other hand, unless something dramatic happens, 2019 should at least come close to matching last year’s pace and that’s better than most months have done this year.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
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2019/09/20 | - | $76,493 | 102 | $750 | $76,493 | 1 | |
2019/09/27 | 23 | $21,538 | -72% | 92 | $234 | $131,571 | 2 |
Box Office Summary Per Territory
Territory | Release Date |
Opening Weekend |
Opening Weekend Screens |
Maximum Screens |
Theatrical Engagements |
Total Box Office |
Report Date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Argentina | 8/30/2019 | $7,091 | 37 | 37 | 37 | $8,857 | 9/8/2019 |
Australia | 10/25/2019 | $139,837 | 57 | 57 | 336 | $534,225 | 1/30/2020 |
Brazil | 9/19/2019 | $0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $77,493 | 7/24/2020 |
France | 9/13/2019 | $206,682 | 207 | 212 | 419 | $351,850 | 9/30/2019 |
Italy | 8/29/2019 | $126,108 | 0 | 4 | 4 | $236,991 | 10/19/2022 |
Netherlands | 8/23/2019 | $87,602 | 81 | 90 | 394 | $438,407 | 10/19/2022 |
New Zealand | 8/22/2019 | $88,449 | 91 | 91 | 408 | $307,463 | 10/19/2022 |
North America | 8/16/2019 | $4,333,305 | 2,307 | 2,307 | 7,362 | $11,901,145 | 11/29/2023 |
Portugal | 8/30/2019 | $15,764 | 21 | 21 | 50 | $33,605 | 10/19/2022 |
Spain | 9/20/2019 | $76,493 | 102 | 102 | 194 | $131,571 | 10/3/2019 |
United Kingdom | 8/9/2019 | $1,167,486 | 544 | 544 | 1984 | $4,115,149 | 11/6/2019 |
Rest of World | $1,393,158 | ||||||
Worldwide Total | $19,529,914 | 11/29/2023 |
Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.
Leading Cast
Viveik Kalra | Javed |
Supporting Cast
Kulvinder Ghir | Malik (Father) |
Meera Ganatra | Noor |
Nell Williams | Eliza |
Aaron Phagura | Roops |
Dean-Charles Chapman | Matt |
Billy Barratt | Matt (10) |
Ronak Chadha Berges | Javed (10) |
Lee Barnett | Foreman |
Kit Reeve | Emma |
David Hayman | Mr. Evans |
Nikita Mehta | Shazia (Sister) |
Rob Brydon | Matt’s Dad |
Lorraine Ashbourne | Kathy |
Tara Divina | Yasmeen (Cousin) |
Jeff Mirza | Mr. Shah |
Frankie Fox | Colin Hand |
Hayley Atwell | Ms. Clay |
Scott Folan | Alan |
Abigail Carter-Simpson | Waitress |
Joshua Grant | Lad 1 |
Tom Stocks | Lad 2 |
Marcus Brigstocke | Robert—Eliza’s Dad |
Olivia Poulet | Frances—Eliza’s Mum |
Leo Shirley | Alex |
Daniella Bowen | Reporter at Mosque |
Sally Phillips | Mrs. Anderson |
Kumiko Chadha Berges | Lilly |
James Ballanger | Passport Official |
Vincent Andriano | Billy |
Kriss Dosanuh | Mr. Singh |
For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.
Production and Technical Credits
Gurinder Chadha | Director |
Jane Barclay | Producer |
Gurinder Chadha | Producer |
Jamal Daniel | Producer |
Sarfraz Manzoor | Story based on the book “Greetings From Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock N’ Roll” by |
Gurinder Chadha | Screenwriter |
Paul Mayeda Berges | Screenwriter |
Sarfraz Manzoor | Screenwriter |
Tory Metzger | Executive Producer |
Renee Witt | Executive Producer |
Peter Touche | Executive Producer |
Stephen Spence | Executive Producer |
Hannah Leader | Executive Producer |
Tracy Nurse | Executive Producer |
Paul Mayeda Berges | Executive Producer |
Nick Ellis | Production Designer |
Justin Krish | Editor |
A.R. Rahman | Composer |
Ben Smithard | Director of Photography |
Alice Dawson | Co-Producer |
Annie Hardinge | Costume Designer |
Glenn Freemantle | Sound Designer |
Glenn Freemantle | Supervising Sound Editor |
Dolores McGinley | Visual Effects Supervisor |
Susie Figgis | Casting Director |
Kirsty Kinnear | Casting Director |
Beth Timbrell | Unit Production Manager |
Lydia Currie | First Assistant Director |
Grant Bailey | Supervising Art Director |
Katie Bullock-Webster | Post-Production Supervisor |
Amory Leader | Post-Production Supervisor |
Richard Ketteridge | Additional Editor |
Lisa Clifford-Owen | First Assistant Editor |
Danny Salas | First Assistant Editor |
Nigel Bunyon | First Assistant Editor |
Rory Herbert | Script Supervisor |
Lucy Howe | Set Decorator |
Jenna McGranaghan | Costume Supervisor |
Sally Tynan | Make-up and Hair Designer |
Vinnie Jasal | Supervising Location Manager |
Umberto Schramm | Location Manager |
Charlotte Hemsley | Location Manager |
Chris Reynolds | Special Effects Supervisor |
Gillian Dodders | Supervising Dialogue Editor |
James Wichall | Dialogue/ADR Editor |
Emilie O’Connor | Dialogue/ADR Editor |
Paul Wrightson | Dialogue/ADR Editor |
Sam Walsh | Foley Mixer |
Adam Bourne | Foley Editor |
Mike Dowson | Re-recording Mixer |
Johnathan Rush | Re-recording Mixer |
Adam Scrivener | Re-recording Mixer |
Mark Wellband | Visual Effects Producer |
Chiara Finello | Visual Effects Producer |
Peter Saville | Music Supervisor |
Zoe Ellen Bryant | Music Supervisor |
Amory Leader | Music Editor |
The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.